Chapter 1 If you want to do it, be his mother-in-law
How does it feel when the person you love becomes your son overnight?
Mu Qingchao raised his eyes and looked at the emperor behind the jasper bead curtain. The seventy-year-old emperor lowered his eyes slightly, with a haggard old face that was as slack as a piece of skin that had been stripped of flesh and blood, hanging down on his cheeks.
Beside him, wisps of green smoke from the burning incense burner curled up.
He suffers from insomnia and headaches and needs this incense to heal him.
But Mu Qingchao knew that all the healing efforts were in vain and he would not live more than half a month.
So she knelt on her knees, folded her hands in front of her, and said in a low voice, as quietly as possible: "Your Majesty, I have something to ask of you."
The emperor, who was half-lying on the couch, lazily raised his eyelids when he heard her words.
Hear her continue: "I want to adopt the fifth prince into my lap."
With one word, the old emperor who was twisting the beads suddenly stopped.
After a long while, I heard his old voice say: "Lao Wu... is still one year older than you."
The fifth prince, Shen Muchi, is sixteen years old and will soon be crowned a prince, while Yi Fei Mu Qingchao is fifteen years old.
This kind of thing sounds really ridiculous.
But Mu Qingchao folded his hands in front of his forehead and bent down on the ground.
Her eager voice was trembling, and she said sincerely: "I entered the palace at the age of fourteen and served Your Majesty without any second thoughts. However, Your Majesty, my father died young, my mother's family is humble, I have nothing to rely on, and I can't I gave birth to a son and a half daughter for Your Majesty.
The civil and military officials regard my concubine as a thorn in their side, and they wish they could pull out her muscles and bones and get rid of her quickly. Your Majesty, you don't know this.
In this huge palace, the only concubine I have is Your Majesty, but I am really afraid that Your Majesty will not be able to stay with me for a long time."
This sentence is extremely disrespectful.
One is that the emperor will not live long.
The second is that the emperor cannot have children.
Everyone in the world said that Emperor Yongshun was fatuous. At the age when he was half dead, he suddenly favored a little girl of fourteen or fifteen years old. He lingered around every night without any restraint, and even the morning court was wasted.
Mu Qingchao, who came from a humble family, rose through the ranks with the favor of his son, and climbed to the rank of concubine in just one year.
But how do they know?
When the emperor lived to this age, he was already incapacitated.
He suffers from a headache, and only the incense mixed by Mu Qingchao can provide some relief.
But the emperor guards a young woman who is as beautiful as a flower just to smell her fragrance?
The Tian family cannot afford to lose their face, and they can only let Mu Qingchao bear the reputation of being a seductive and evil master.
The emperor would rather hide these secrets by being called fatuous and lecherous than others. At this moment, Mu Qingchao said it clearly, probably because he didn't want to live anymore.
But she had to give it a try. She knew that if she didn't have a bargaining chip, as long as the emperor died, she and even the entire Mu family would be infamous in the world, fall into the endless hell, and die without a burial place.
She has to live.
Emperor Shunhe behind the bead curtain just looked down at her without saying a word.
He didn't speak, and Mu Qingchao didn't dare to get up from his knees.
The atmosphere was heavy and depressing, as if even the air was condensed. Mu Qingchao even held his breath, except for the scent of albizia flowers on the tip of his nose that lingered for a long time.
Three days later, an imperial decree came down.
The Jin Dynasty granted Concubine Yi the title of Concubine Yi, and adopted the fifth prince into Concubine Yi. She took on the responsibility of raising the fifth prince.
Mu Qingchao did not expect that the imperial edict would be issued so quickly.
Is it because of guilt?
The majestic Ninth Five-Year Plan, but a woman has to bear all the infamy, so this is compensation?
The Mu Qing Dynasty is unknown.
The Sacred Heart is unfathomable.
The harem and the previous dynasties were all crazy.
"Is Your Majesty really crazy? The fifth prince will be crowned king and leave the palace in a few months. What does he need to raise from a fifteen-year-old girl in these few days? Is it possible to teach him about the boudoir?"
"Is that girl the reincarnation of a fox demon or someone who knows the art of witchcraft? How can you make Your Majesty so ridiculous?"
"It's the evil concubine who is bringing trouble to the world, and the country is about to perish..."
When these rumors fell on Mu Qingchao's ears, she was in her Chaoyun Palace, fiddling with the ashes in the incense burner with gold and chi patterns in front of her eyes, with a smile in her eyes.
Demon concubine?
She had heard enough in her last life.
When Emperor Yongshun stayed at her place, he always shunned everyone. In his last life, he died in her Chaoyun Palace.
The civil and military officials do not know the full story, but they say that the demon concubine was vicious and killed the emperor.
But everyone knows that when the emperor lives to that age, he has already reached the end of his strength. Who can he harm? Who can he use to harm him?
It's because the civil and military officials don't tolerate her, it's because the people of the world don't tolerate her.
It is the scandal of the Five Kings seizing the direct line that needs to be covered up.
Therefore, she needed to be nailed to a rack of shame as a woman, to be infamyed and scorned by the world. She was tortured with an iron skirt and burned alive. After her death, her body was hung on the city tower for a full hundred days.
Her family, beheaded by beheaded, exiled by exile, the men were slaves, the women were prostitutes...
In fact, what was wrong with her?
However, prosperous times require women to embellish, and troubled times require women to bear the blame.
In this life, the reputation of the demon concubine came earlier, but Mu Qingchao had a chance to survive.
Relive your life and take revenge?
nonexistent.
She has traveled around the world for so long more than a thousand years later, and finally got a chance to be reborn. Is she going to be blinded by hatred? Will she struggle in pain all her life?
No, she just wants to survive in this life.
Live well, live for a long time, protect her family and the people she cares about.
The little girl came in from outside the palace cursing. She probably heard the gossip in the harem and felt very unhappy.
But as soon as he walked into the house, he saw Mu Qingchao with a smile on his face.
Chun Ya was startled: "Mother, there are rumors everywhere, how can you still laugh?"
Mu Qingchao looked at the little girl in front of him, with her hair in a bun, round eyes, and a round face.
Spring buds...
She remembered the last days of her previous life, when she watched Chun Ya being sold into the Jiaofang Division and becoming a prostitute.
It was her who hurt her.
But when they were leaving, the little girl looked at her with worry and said: "I heard about the iron skirt punishment, where the person who was tortured put on a skirt made of iron pieces and put it on the fire to be burned, scalding him to death.
How painful it is, my dear, how can you bear it?"
After this goodbye, they never saw each other again.
At this moment, Chun Ya was standing in front of her.
"I am still alive and well. I can still look at you and see that you are safe. How can I not smile?" Mu Qingchao said with a choked voice.
Fortunately, fortunately, there is still time in this life.
There is still room for change in everything.
After her death in her previous life, her soul wandered around, thousands of years later.
At that time, she saw that everyone on the street was wearing strange clothes and the things around her were unrecognizable, so she randomly picked up a person and asked: "What year is Nanming now?"
The man stared at her strangely: "Which mental hospital did you run out of? Nanming? Nanming has been destroyed for more than a thousand years. It is now a new dynasty. Don't you know about the new dynasty?"
Nanming was destroyed?
Mu Qingchao looked for Daqi documents, and it was written that the Southern Ming Dynasty ended in the 136th year.
The document also states that the sixth king of the Southern Ming Dynasty was the fifth prince - Shen Muchi.
Shen Muchi...
The man she loved to the core was also the man who personally sent her to the emperor and sent her on the road to destruction.
When she was reborn, she put down all love and hatred, she was calm and restrained, she just wanted to survive...
So she knelt before His Majesty.
She no longer wanted to be Shen Muchi's imperial concubine. If she wanted to do it, she would be his mother-in-law...